Congo confronts the country’s enduring cycle of exploitation, from King Leopold II’s brutal colonial reign to the modern tech industry’s hunger for cobalt. The Belgian king is reimagined as a cobalt-colored snake devouring an apple marked by Tesla’s emblem, while Mother Congo cradles her martyred son, Patrice Lumumba, in a vision of mourning and defiance.

A reimagined trinity where soul, spirit, and material intertwine, evoking Jesus as sage of transformation.

Sudan honors the dual legacy of the region, its ancient Nubian kingdoms and the modern tragedies born of war, oil, and displacement. Through the figure’s flowing blood that turns to oil, the work links Sudan’s royal past to its contemporary struggles, revealing how external exploitation continues to echo through time.

A tribute to ancestral guardianship, where braids, beads, and vivid color embody feminine power, memory, and resilience.

High Priestess channels divine intuition, feminine power, and ancestral wisdom. Through layered materials, the work embodies the unseen knowledge guiding creation, transformation, and balance.

An alchemical vision where braided elements and mineral forms weave the four elements into a meditation on transformation.

Not Native explores the shared human story of migration through layered textures, color lines, and symbolic materials. Each colored strand on the fabric represents a different migration path; forced, chosen, or ancestral blurring the boundaries between belonging and displacement. The work asks who can truly claim to be native when movement defines our collective existence.

A bold reversal of colonial narratives, where braids and symbols transform oppression into visions of survival.

An invocation of balance, uniting fire, water, air, and earth while asking how we might nourish both body and soul.

Curandera honors the Afro-Indigenous healer as vessel of ancestral medicine, ritual, and transformation. With braids as spiritual conduits and colors echoing nature’s remedies, the work evokes sacred power rooted in survival and love.